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Many of these were with partner Max Lowry, who died suddenly last year.

Their famous images fooled pedestrians into thinking there is a gaping hole in front of them and have also focussed on politics, once painting Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling falling down a black hole outside the Treasury building before one of their Budgets was announced.

Game, set and match: Artist Joe Hill poses with one of his works featuring Centre Court at Wimbledon as part of the VisitBritain tourism campaign at Circular Quay in Australia

Letter home: Joe with an image showing an iconic British post box bursting out of a Sydney pavement

The past-master of the 3D pavement genre is widely recognised as street artist Kurt Wenner.

The American's three-dimensional chalk pictures have included muses swimming in a pond by the side of a road in Lucernes, Switzerland, a Judgement Day scene in a medieval town square, and a virtual Renaissance city painted on the pavement in Bettona, Italy.

Finished: Joe signs off the work done

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